Friday, May 25, 2012

"It's the Star Wars Trilogy like you've never heard it before! Join voice
actors Billy West, Tara Strong, Maurice LaMarche, John DiMaggio, Kevin
Conroy, Jess Harnell and Rob Paulsen as they re-create the magic of the
Star Wars films, albeit in their own special way!"

"In a world...where singing puppets can't hear you
scream." Meat & Potato Theatre brings you the mash-up of the season
with this tribute to all things Sci-Fi, puppet, and Broadway musical!

Follow
the adventures of Ellen Ripley (m&p favorite Rebecca Marcotte) as
she returns to the planet where she first encountered a murderous alien
that wiped out her entire crew. Now he's imbedded in a platoon of Space
Marines whose mission it is to discover why the colony on that same
planet has gone mysteriously quiet.

Oozing with characters from
Snake Plissken to Optimus Prime, from Bert to Ernie, and from Alf to
Lady Gaga! Festering with hundreds references to other science fiction
movies! Quarantined with eight brand new songs and dances! Meat &
Potato Theatre takes you to heaven and back with their unique brand of
theatrical storytelling!

(Water pistols are used in this performance. Audiences may get sprayed.)

James Doohan has now gone where he's always wanted to go.
When the actor better known as Scotty on the popular TV series Star Trek died in 2005, it was his wish to have his ashes sent into space.

Well, after an earlier attempt was made to launch them back in 2008
failed, that dream became a reality on Tuesday when Doohan's remains
were successfully sent into orbit via SpaceX's unmanned Falcon 9 rocket.

Doohan, however, wasn't the only "celeb" to take off from Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station yesterday. Among the other 308 deceased
individuals who had their ashes shot into the cosmos along with the USS
Enterprise engineer was Gordon Cooper, who was one of the famous Mercury
seven astronauts.

Saturday, May 19, 2012

While working yesterday I received a text from Mrs Smash, with this photo of a wooden castle she had built. This is how she told me 'GAME OF THRONES': SEASON 1: Disc Two had just arrived from Netflix. Awesome.

Friday, May 18, 2012

MonsterMary made me aware of Fright-Rag'sLIMITED EDITION 'ALIEN' T-Shirt! The shirt goes away May 20th at 11:59pm (EST). The T-Shirt will run ya $26, and the Hoodie is $46. I'm on the fence... should I get one or not? Hmmm...

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

This is quite possibly the worst costume for kids I've ever seen, based on an existing pop culture character. If you're still scratching your head - its supposed to be BLUE BEETLE. Atleast it has a mask, I suppose....

Friday, May 11, 2012

He posted this back in 2008, but I'm just now discovering it... ROB LIEFELD is working on this:

"For the past 8 years I’ve been drawing pages for a personal project
that is epic in its scope, because it involves every single character I
ever created from my Extreme Universe that started with the launch of
Youngblood #1. The book is called The Assembled and is told in the
present, flashbacks, and flash forwards. The Extreme Universe is now
ruled by an army of Supreme’s headed by the Supreme that returned in
Supreme #1 in 1992. He has taken control of the Supremacy and imposed
his rule on the world. Heroes have scattered and formed rebel factions
in order to break Supreme’s rule. You will see how it all originally
went down and how the alliances are formed as well as glimpse the
struggle that the heroes now face as the Supremacy tightens their grip.
The story actually began in the pages of the Suprema one-shot two
years ago. I’ve imagined this story many times and now it’s coming to
fruition.
The Assembled preview pages featured here depict Supreme being
challenged by Nite (formerly Prof. Nite) Brick ( from Doom’s 4) and
Shaft." ---Rob Liefeld

Sounds kinda cool!

Ya know, I wish Liefeld had stayed & continued in his Extreme Universe from Younblood #1 and on... The EXU us just so... so very him! Think of the bulk of work we'd have now had he remained working on 'Youngblood'... and expanded the book to fold in the other EXU characters within; 'Brigade', 'Bloodstrike', 'Supreme', 'Prophet', etc... and more. Maybe rotating writers like Robert Kirkman, Alan Moore, Mark Millar, Joe Casey (who are other friends of Rob?... sigh, Loeb I buess - but he'd have to be on his A-Game, his Batman-Long-Halloween-Game). There's something fun about that idea. Regarding this 'Assembled' project... release it as a huge omnibus-sized graphic novel, Rob.